Judges 15:2
Good News Translation
He told Samson, "I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your friend. But her younger sister is prettier, anyway. You can have her, instead."

New Revised Standard Version
Her father said, “I was sure that you had rejected her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister prettier than she? Why not take her instead?”

Contemporary English Version
"When you left the way you did, I thought you were divorcing her. So I arranged for her to marry one of the young men who were at your party. But my younger daughter is even prettier, and you can have her as your wife."

New American Bible
He said, “I thought you hated her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is better; you may have her instead.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.

I verily

Judges 14:16,20 So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I tell it to thee? . . .

Acts 26:9 And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

gave

Judges 14:20 But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.

Genesis 38:14 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

take her.

Context
Samson's Revenge
1And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying: 2I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.3And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.…
Cross References
Judges 14:20
But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.

Judges 15:3
And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.

Judges 15:1
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